Getting Started Welcome to the Cloud CMS Documentation center. Cloud CMS is an API-first content management system that provides everything you need on the back end to power web sites and mobile applications. Cloud CMS makes it easy for your business users to create, manage and publish amazing content to your users! You are reading the Getting Started guide. To learn more about Cloud CMS and what it does, select from the links provided below or use the tree on the left-hand side. We offer severa

How to Start a Workflow Note: A Workflow model is defined at Platform level and is available within all projects See workflow video: https://www.cloudcms.com/resources/introduction-to-workflow.html Example Start a workflow from a ‘document’ There are a number ways to start a workflow. Here is just one: open a document Click 'Workflows' and then ‘+Start Workflow’ This will bring up the Start Workflow Form. Complete the fields in the form. Notes: In our example, the Adhoc Workflow, you will need a

Type Pages The type-pages key lets you define routes that serve as landing pages for entity types. Specific pages within Cloud CMS serve as landing pages for an entity that is being viewed. Type Page configurations allow you to specify which URI should be dispatched to when viewing. Each type page has a very simple binding like this: {
"uri": "{uri}"
}
Example - Dispatching a Workflow Task to the Overview Page {
"evaluator": "entity-is-type",
"condition": "Gitana.WorkflowTask",

Your Task Dashboards Tasks assigned to you in a Workflow process can be seen in your Platform Dashboard, Project Dashboard, or an email may have been sent to you with the Task link Platform Dashboard Tasks asigned to you for all Projects will be listed Project Dashboard Tasks asigned to you for the Project only will be listed Task Overview If you click on a task, or open the Task link in the email, the Task Overview page is opened From here you can perform the following actions on the task: appr

View/Create a Workflow Model Switch to Platform level Click 'Workflow Models' (left Nav). Note: You will need to have admin or owner permissions to see the Workflow options. If you select a Workflow model you can Deploy, Undeploy, delete a Workflow model View/Edit Workflow Model Click on the Workflow name, eg Adhoc Approval, to view the Workflow Model To view/edit the Workflow click JSON Manage Active Workflow To see active instances of the workflow model click on Workflow option Note: you can s

Create/Edit Content In a Project you can find your content a number of ways: Content (left Nav) - Content listed under Content Types Documents (left Nav) - Folder/File view of the content Search (left Nav for a detailed search or top right for a keyword search) Viewing a Content item With any of the options above, to find or list the content, click on the 'title' of the content item to open the 'Document Overview': Note: your tenant may be configured such that the options available in the left n

Our definitions are based on JSON schema and, as such, the default is to use strings for dates. The date controls in our forms engine let you customize the format string so that you can store ISO 8601 or other formats (perhaps simplified formats) as per your preference. The advantage here is simplicity with these controls and compatibility with JSON schema. The disadvantage is that MongoDB provides a lot of very powerful capabilities for range query and sorting that do not play as nicely with th

View Active/Inactive Workflow You can view both the Active and Inactive workflow from the Platform and Project levels. The Platform level will show all workflow for all Projects and at Project level it will show all workflow for that Project. Click Workfow Title to open the Workflow Overview page

Tags Cloud CMS lets you manage your tag hierarchy and assign those tags to your content. Content that is tagged is automatically marked with the tag information (within the tags property) and will also maintain an a:has_tag association in the content graph that points back to the tag instance. Tags are first class citizens within Cloud CMS. They are content like everything else. Once content is tagged, you will see it reflected in the user interface as such. You will be able to navigate your con

Multilingual When applied to a node, this indicates that you wish to have the contents of this node support multilingual behavior and translated content. This node then serves as the "master node" for translation support. Master nodes have a:has_translation associations to translation nodes that hold copies of the content (JSON and any attachments) in the target locale Marking a node as f:multilingual does not automatically produce translations for you. However, once marked, the Cloud CMS user i

Workflow swimlanes are assigned the domain-qualified ID of a principal (which can be either a user or a group). If it is set to a user, then a transition of a workflow into that swimlane will result in a task being assigned to a specific user. If it is set to a group, then a transition of a workflow into that swimlane will result in a task being assigned to a group where none of the members of the group are assigned anything. Rather, the task appears in a list of available tasks that any of the

Locking Cloud CMS locking is a "data lock" approach which is a transactional lock is taken out when the write of multiple documents begins. This is a transactional lock in the sense that it blocks other write operations against those documents and fails entirely with rollback if any of the documents fail individually. We have transactional writes for multiple documents. We have a changeset-driven versioning model where each transaction writes onto it's own changeset. N number of documents may wr

Scripts Scripts are content nodes with a default attachment of type application/javascript. As with all behaviors, script nodes must implement the f:behavior feature. They must be bound to a node upon which to act (either a definition node or a content instance) using a a:has_behavior association. Script Interfaces If you elect to write scripts to implement custom behaviors, the following signatures can be used inside of your JavaScript: Association Policies function beforeAssociate(association)

OAuth 2.0 Cloud CMS supports OAuth2 for server authorization. OAuth2 provides a secure and robust method for authenticating clients and users to the server. It's become well-adopted across the industry by other vendors including Facebook, Twitter and Salesforce. We feel that OAuth2 is a best practice authorization mechanism for the applications that our customers build. As we move forward, we intend to support additional authorization schemes as they are requested. However, we find that OAuth2 i